Greta Gerwig’s Academy Award nomination for Best Director in 2018 was a big deal, and not just because she was the fifth woman to earn the nod. Her directorial debut, Lady Bird, received plenty ...

Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at someone and saying, “Okay, here is the genius who put it all together.” That appraisal may ...

Campion is the only woman who has earned multiple best director nominations at the Academy Awards. In 2021, she was nominated and won the award for "The Power of the Dog," which starred Benedict ...

The film’s director, Sean Baker, also won the award for Best Director ... am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last.” ...

its track record for Best Director is notable. Only three of the past 11 winners haven't then gone on to take home the ...

Academy Award voters love actors who take on historical ... with the six others being best picture, best director (Christopher Nolan), supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), film editing, score ...

The Oscar for best stunt is finally rolling up to the Academy Awards ... "The Fall Guy" director David Leitch, the onetime stuntman who spearheaded the award initiative with stunt actor Chris ...

In 2009, Kathryn Bigelow made cinematic history with her intense war drama “The Hurt Locker,” becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Her groundbreaking ...

She and writing partner Arthur Harari did, however, win the award for best original screenplay. Fargeat is the ninth woman to be nominated for best director at the Academy Awards, and the tenth ...